In this paper, study examines the barriers and enablers in implementation of lean six sigma (LSS) in Indian manufacturing sector. Indian manufacturing sector would contribute 25% of GDP and increase employability and enhance global competition in near future. In order to achieve the objectives, the various research questions were asked, which are key factors to initiate Implementing LSS tools.

it is now evident in the literature that the information and communication technology (ict) has a positive and significant impact on the productivity and economic growth. most studies in this area, however, are limited to the developed countries. given different regulations and economic conditions, and also an increasing trend in allocating resources to ict in developing countries, it is import...

In this paper we study the capacity investment decision for make-to-order manufacturing firms that utilize a fixed capacity, operate in a stochastic, stationary market, and can influence their demand rate by increasing or decreasing their sales effort. We consider manufacturing situations that differ in sales contribution, in market elasticity to sales effort, work-in-process costs, and demand ...

The purpose of the paper is to close the gap between theoretical approaches concerning manufacturing strategy and empirical analysis. This is accomplished by using data from the ‘‘High-Performance Manufacturing’’ project. In order to distinguish plants with a high implementation of a manufacturing strategy from the rest of the sample, the plants are grouped by a cluster analysis. Furthermore, t...

The increasing concerns about the environment and the depletion of natural resources are the main drivers for the growing interest in sustainability. Manufacturing operations are frequently considered to have an adverse effect on the environment. Hence, the sustainable operation of manufacturing facilities is a vital practice to ensure sustainability. The aim of this paper is to find the optimu...

Some recent trends in manufacturing in particular and business in general, lead to new approaches regarding the organisation and software architecture, mainly adopting distributed solutions. Such organisations imply organisational and technological evolution through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexibility. New organisational and technological paradigms are needed in ...

The paper highlights the problem of minimizing economic costs of making orders in the automated manufacturing system which consists of work centres arranged in a series. Each of them is equipped with tools which carry out defined manufacturing operations. Tools are replaced with new ones only when no manufacturing operation can be performed any more in order to minimize the residual pass. The e...

Fuzzy regression (FR) been demonstrated as a promising technique for modeling manufacturing processes where availability of data is limited. FR can only yield linear type FR models which have a higher degree of fuzziness, but FR ignores higher order or interaction terms and the influence of outliers, all of which usually exist in the manufacturing process data. Genetic programming (GP), on the ...

The paper presents problems arising during developing algorithms controlling workpiece flow subsystems in a flexible manufacturing system. The necessary signals as well as the general algorithm responsible for worpiece flow in a flexible manufacturing system were defined. On the basis of a structure of a flexible manufacturing system developed at the Institute of Manufacturing Engineering of Sz...

Some significant and related researches on software resource re-sharing in Cloud Manufacturing system at home and abroad is introduced, in addition, analyzing the structure of the software that applied to manufacturing currently are web-based, software are directly sharing, or package-based and remote sharing using the internet server provided the common software in a indirect sharing way. So t...